And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted,

forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's

sake hath forgiven you.

SERMON XXII.

Page 143.

THE DOCTRINE OF GRACE A MOTIVE WITH ST.

PAUL TO HUMILITY AND DILIGENCE.

1 Cor. xv. 9, 10.

For I am the least of the Apostles; that am not

meet to be called an Apostle, because I perse-

cuted the Church of God :

But by the grace of God I am what I am ; and

his grace, which was bestowed upon me, was not

in vain ; but I laboured more abundantly than

they all ; yet not 1, but the grace of God which

was with me. i

SERMON XXIII.

Page 163.

EFFICACY AND REQUISITES OF PRAYER.

LUKE xviii. 1-6.

And he spake a parable unto them to this end,

that men ought always to pray and not to faint.

SERMON XXIV.

Page 197.

SELF-DECEIT OF THOSE WHO ARE HEARERS, BUT

NOT DOERS OF THE WORD.

Be

ye

James i. 22.

doers of the word, and not hearers only,

SERMON XXV.

Page 229.

NECESSITY AND BENEFITS OF BAPTISM,

MATT. xxviii. 18, 19, 20.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,

All

power is given unto me in heaven and in

earth.

Go ye therefore, and teach alt nations, baptizing

them in the name of the Father, and of the

Son, and of the Holy Ghost ;

Teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever
house, did eat their meat with gladness and sin-

gleness of heart,

Praising God, and having favour with all the

people. And the Lord added to the Church

daily such as should be saved.

SERMON XXVIII.

Page 327.

SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS NO PRIVILEGE FOR SIN;

EXEMPLIFIED IN THE PUNISHMENT OF THE

JEWS IN THE WILDERNESS.

1 Cor. x. 11, 12.

Now all these things happened unto them for

ensamples ; and they are written for our ad-

monition, upon whom the ends of the world are

come.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take

heed lest he fall.

SERMON XXIX.

Page 347.

THE USES OF AFFLICTION.

PSALM cxix. 71.

It is good

for me that I have been afflicted, that

I might learn thy statutes.

SERMON XXX.

Page 365.

THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS.

NUMBERS xxiii. 10.

- Let me die the death of the righteous, and

let
my

last end be like his.

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SERMON XXXI.

Page 387.

THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED.

Rom. viii. 18.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time

are not worthy to be compared with the glory

which shall be revealed in us.

SERMON XVI.

THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT EXEMPLIFIED IN THE

CHARACTER OF JOSEPH.

Gen. xli. 38, 39. And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such an one as this is, a man in whom is

the Spirit of God? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as

God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art.

AMONG the various excellencies which recommend the books of the Old Testament to our attention, it is not one of the least that they abound in admirable examples of the most exalted virtue. It is true indeed, that several of those examples are occasionally represented as polluted with moral defilement, the consequence of their